Saint-Saëns and the Stage - Hugh MacDonald

Saint-Saëns and the Stage

Operas, Plays, Pageants, a Ballet and a Film

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Buch | Hardcover
446 Seiten
2019
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-42638-1 (ISBN)
129,95 inkl. MwSt
Designed as a resource for opera lovers, opera professionals, and music students, this book provides a guide to Saint-Saëns's twelve operas and a variety of other stage works for those who are curious to know more. It will enhance listeners' experience of recordings of Saint-Saëns, which are enjoying increased popularity as his centenary approaches.
The stage works of Saint-Saëns range from grand open-air pageants to one-act comic operas, and include the first composed film score. Yet, with the exception of Samson et Dalila, his twelve operas have lain in the shadows since the composer's death in 1921. Widely performed in his lifetime, they vanished from the repertory - never played, never recorded - until now. With four twenty-first-century revivals as a backdrop, this timely book is the first study of Saint-Saëns's operas, demonstrating the presence of the same breadth and versatility as in his better known works. Hugh Macdonald's wide knowledge of French music in the nineteenth century gives a powerful understanding of the different conventions and expectations that governed French opera at the time. The interaction of Saint-Saëns with his contemporaries is a colourful and important part of the story.

Hugh Macdonald's distinguished career has included appointments at the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of Glasgow and Washington University, St Louis. He was General Editor of the New Berlioz Edition (1967–2006), and has published books on Skryabin, Berlioz and Bizet.

1. Preparations for opera, Le Duc de Parme; 2. Le Timbre d'argent; 3. Samson et Dalila; 4. La Princesse jaune; 5. Etienne Marcel; 6. Henry VIII; 7. Proserpine; 8. Ascanio; 9. La Crampe des écrivains, Phryné; 10. Antigone, Frédégonde; 11. Javotte, Déjanire; 12. Lola, Les Barbares; 13. Parysatis, Botriocéphale, Andromaque, Le Roi Apépi, Hélène; 14. L'Ancêtre, La Foi; 15. L'Assassinat du Duc de Guise, Déjanire, On ne badine pas avec l'amour; 16. Saint-Saëns the Dramatist.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies in Opera
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 186 Printed music items; 17 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 182 x 253 mm
Gewicht 1050 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Allgemeines / Lexika
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-10 1-108-42638-7 / 1108426387
ISBN-13 978-1-108-42638-1 / 9781108426381
Zustand Neuware
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